Run results for: matches or getAttribute

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 119

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

getAttribute

153/s

matches

146/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ getAttribute	153 Ops/sec
matches	146 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div data-foo="bar"></div>

Tests:

matches
var element = document.querySelector("div"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { console.log(element.matches("[data-foo]")); }
getAttribute
var element = document.querySelector("div"); var i = 1000; while (i--) { console.log(!!element.getAttribute("data-foo")); }